After meeting with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Harry S Truman vows to purge all disloyal government workers.

1968

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mexico’s President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, Texas, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border.

1972

Astronaut Gene Cernan climbs into his lunar lander on the moon and prepares to lift off. He is the last man to set foot on the moon.

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George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley.

1770

The British soldiers responsible for the "Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder charges.

1862

The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River.

1863

Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners.

1901

Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland.

1927

Communists forces seize Canton, China.

1930

The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town.

1930

The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany.

1931

Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China.

1943

The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad.

1943

The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation.

1956

The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary.

1964

Kenya becomes a republic.

1964

Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon.

1967

The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.

1979

South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, acting without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa, alleging that the chief of staff was involved in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.

1985

Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff at Gander, Newfoundland; among the 256 dead are 236 members of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

1991

The Russian Federation becomes independent from the USSR.

1995

Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco.

2000

The US Supreme Court announces its decision in Bush v. Gore, effectively ending legal changes to the results of that year’s Presidential election.

Born on December 12

1745

John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States.

1805

William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist who published The Liberator.

1821

Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart).

1863

Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (The Scream).

1893

Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for gangster roles.

1897

Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist.

1912

Henry Jackson Jr, boxer using the name Henry Armstrong, the only fighter to hold 3 professional boxing titles simultaneously.

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